We finally had the opportunity to meet Wong Kar-wai face-to-face, and let him personally rectify these widely circulated "jokes" on the Internet, and also reveal to us in advance what is new in "Dong Xie West Poison Final Edition". Unexpectedly, these old jokes we said made Wong Kar-wai so shocked that he almost lost his sunglasses. He said, "I was really notorious at that time!
" Released nationwide. Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, and Cai Ni Yang, the six diamond line-ups present a once glorious era, an era full of creativity and vitality in Hong Kong movies. Today, among the six leading actors, Leslie Cheung has passed away, and Brigitte Lin has been out of film for many years. The people of the past have gone on the Yellow Crane, only to sigh and reminisce.
Legend has it that the first
filming of "East and West" was to make up for "Evil and Poison in the West"?
At the beginning, Wong Kar-wai liked the two names "Eastern Evil and West Poison", so he bought the copyright of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and came back to film the stories of Dongxie, Xidu, Nandi, Beibei, and Zhongshentong when they were young. More than a month after the filming started, Wong Kar-wai's progress was slow, so his good friend Liu Zhenwei (who is also the producer of "Dong Evil and West Poison") filmed "East and West" to make up for the pot. The filming of "East and West" gave Wong Kar-wai time to reconsider, and also made up for the bleak box office of "Evil in the East".
Wong Kar Wai's Name Correction: From the very beginning, it was decided to shoot two plays at the same time
During the filming of "Evil and Poison in the West", Liu Zhenwei and I were in the arena for a while, and we had nothing. At that time, as long as we heard that it was something that no one else had done, we would say, do it! Two wild people. In 1990, after Tsui Hark filmed "The Unbeaten East", suddenly everyone wanted to make martial arts films. Someone came to us to invest and said, you should make something similar to "Unbeaten East". I said yes! Then shoot "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"! Anyway, at that time, as long as there were martial arts, Jin Yong and Brigitte Lin, investors would immediately give money. But it was still too expensive to make according to my idea, so I decided to make two films at the same time, one is "East and West", and the other is "Evil in the East".
In fact, this is the watershed between us. Two good friends are both directors, is it going to be a showdown one day? Better take a different path. The first draft of "Evil in the East and Poison in the West" was useless, and the first 15 minutes of the play was later used by Liu Zhenwei as the script for "Journey to the West". We once thought of making "Dong Xie Xi Du" into a modern movie. One poster shows three heroines dressed in ancient costumes and holding Coke, and the other poster shows four male protagonists wearing ancient costumes and holding cigarettes. Is "East Accomplishes West Accomplishment" for the purpose of "Evil and Poison in the West", and it is not. At that time, it was the so-called golden age of Hong Kong movies. It had a very strong overseas market. The lineup was very large, and it was good at the box office, for example, in Taiwan and South Korea.
Legend 2
Brigitte Lin was once the East evil, Wang Zuxian was the West poison?
After the filming started, Wong Kar-wai's wild and unrestrained concept could never be determined. "Dongxie" and "Western Poison" used to be Brigitte Lin and Wang Zuxian, but they decided to let Leslie Cheung play Dongxian when the movie started. But more than a month after the filming started, Wong Kar-wai discovered that the character of Xi Du's character was "inferior and didn't want to be hurt", something Leslie Cheung had never tried before. That's why "East evil" became "Western poison", and the roles of other people were reshuffled. Therefore, Leslie Cheung's filming for a month was completely abandoned. Except for the opening scene that cost 1.5 million to shoot, Wong Kar-wai divided it into two and made the opening and ending scenes. The most terrifying thing is that before the release, Wong Kar-wai didn't care about the actor's mouth shape on the screen at all. Through voice-over and dubbing, he gave the characters new lines to build a new story.
Wang Jiawei's name rectification: At first, Tony Leung was the drug of the West, and Leslie Cheung was the evil of the East
There is no first thing about Dong Xie and Western poison, what I arranged first is: Liang Chaowei is Western poison, Leslie Cheung is Dong Xie, and Brigitte Lin is Dugu seeking defeat. Later, I felt that there was no challenge for Leslie Cheung to be Dongxie. He had done a lot of that chic and elegant role, so he changed it to Xidu, Liang Chaowei moved to be a blind warrior, and Liang Jiahui came to be Dongxie. Brigitte Lin actually didn't move from the start. The only thing that moved was that we turned the predecessor of Dugu Qiubai into two schizophrenics: Murong Yan and Murong Yan. When Leslie Cheung played Dongxie, he actually only filmed a fight scene, and later did the opening and ending.
As for rebuilding the whole character and story through voice-over and dubbing, it's actually like this: our voice-over was only collected after the entire movie was made, but at that time, Leslie Cheung was filming Chen Kaige's "Fengyue" in Huangshan, and I sent it. A sound engineer went to Chen Kaige's studio, found Leslie Cheung, and asked him to find a corner by himself to compose all the voiceovers. Leslie Cheung thought the recording would be finished in an hour, so he agreed. He didn't expect to get a stack of paper in his hand, with a lot of content, he was very broken at that time. I found a large temple with no one, and recorded it for several days and nights, as if he was telling the whole story alone. So at that time, the quality of the sound was not very good, you could probably hear the birdsong in Huangshan, but in the final version now, I made the sound very clean, and the sound effect and picture changed a lot.
Legend 3
classic lines are from Gu Long and Haruki Murakami?
Many of Wong Kar Wai's classic movie lines actually come from popular novels. In "Evil in the East and the Poison in the West", it says "What is the difference between drinking and drinking water, the more you drink the wine, the warmer you are, and the colder the water is, the colder you drink" from Gu Long, while others say When it comes to specific numbers, for example, in "Chongqing Forest", "When the distance between me and her was only 0.01 cm", it came from Haruki Murakami.
Wang Jiawei's name rectification: In addition to Gu Long and Murakami, there is also Sammo Hung
The lines in "Dong Xie Xi Du" are indeed very typical Gu Long. Jin Yong is a hero, and Gu Long is a fairy. Gu Long's style is stronger and more realistic than Jin Yong's. He tells you a very personal thing. I like Gu Long because he is a gangster, a talented gangster. So when I was shooting, I thought, if Gu Long wrote this scene, how would he write it? I like contrast, so I try to tell Jin Yong's story in Gu Long's tone. When I was filming "Chongqing Forest", wow, every young person in Hong Kong had a book by Haruki Murakami in their hands, and suddenly there were a lot of literary teenagers talking about this every day, so I wanted to make fun of Murakami. Spring tree fans, put this tune into "Chongqing Forest". I just wanted to make fun of it, but many people may feel moved after watching it, so this is an accident. But in fact, there are lines in "Evil in the East and Poison in the West" that Sammo Hung contributed. At that time, we went to see the scenery together and walked on the desert. In order to see far, he had to climb those hills. At that time, Sammo Hung was very fat and didn't want to climb one by one, so he said, "Do you think there is something behind the mountain? It's still the same desert, it's another mountain. Don't climb anymore. !" Later I used this sentence in the movie and let Leslie Cheung say it.
Legend 4
Wang Zuxian's play was cut with two seconds left?
In 1992, when Wang Zuxian was filming the poster of "Evil and Poison in the West", she was interviewed by a Korean TV station. She said, "I don't usually take a lot of group dramas. For this drama, I completely trust the director, so I will take it." At that time. , she must not have thought that Wang Jiawei would cut her so miserably. There are two versions of Wang Zuxian's appearance in the film "Evil in the East". The popular version (such as DVD) appeared at the end of the film, and Wang Zuxian appeared for less than two seconds, facing Leung Ka Fai, only one side. In a special version, such as the Taiwan version broadcast on TV, there will be Wang Zuxian jumping over with scissors and assassinating Liang Jiahui. The 8-second clip is more clearly visible than the DVD close-up. According to the smell of the final version, Wong Kar-wai will use a lot of useless Wong Cho-hsien lenses before.
Wang Jiawei's name: Wang Zuxian actually only took pictures
In fact, Wang Zuxian has few plays, because Zuxian later went to "East and West". Because at that time, we first filmed "Dong Xie Xi Po", and suddenly it felt like it was going to be a new year, so we had to use "East Becomes West" to catch up with this New Year's file, so a group of people rushed to shoot "East Becomes West". , the main force went to "East and West". After the filming of "East and West", Zu Xian's schedule will come, so Zu Xian's plays here are very few. Do you know how long she has been filming in "Evil in the East"? In fact, Wang Zuxian filmed a movie at that time, and there was no official filming at all. At that time, Hong Kong had a habit of filming films. Before filming, filming flowers, each actor for a paragraph, and then collecting them all and handing them over to each place for promotion. Therefore, each actor took a clip before the official filming, which is her appearance in the play, which is a very short thing. So in the final version, I deleted all the scenes of Wang Zuxian.
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